A delivery window does not care why you were late. Traffic & Roads shows what the public data says is happening on the network, and is straight about what that data can and cannot tell you.
What it uses
- Street Manager permits. The Department for Transport publishes every street and road works permit in England as an open data stream. FreightIntel receives those notifications as they are published and stores them, with the permit’s location, dates and works description. This is the main source for roadworks.
- Traffic Wales alerts. The latest published update for each Welsh incident or roadworks item, with its publication time.
- National Highways WebTRIS sensors. Stored traffic flow readings for individual monitoring sites on the strategic road network.
- DfT road traffic statistics. Annual average daily flow figures, for context on how busy a road usually is.
Searching and planning around works
You can search stored road events by text, and narrow them to those that overlap a journey window of up to 31 days. That makes it easy to ask what is scheduled to affect a run next week.
What the data does not say
- A scheduled permit is evidence of planned works, not proof a road is closed right now. Dates and status come from the people who file the permit.
- An empty result does not mean a route is clear. It means nothing matching was found in what we hold.
- WebTRIS readings are site-level counts, not road-wide speed and not a journey time. FreightIntel does not give you an arrival estimate from them.
- A Traffic Wales item’s publication time is not when the event started, and a stored alert is not claimed to still be active.
Data honesty
Each source shows when it was last retrieved. When a feed is stale or unavailable, the app says so. You will never see a synthetic traffic figure presented as a live one. Sources and licences are on the data sources page.